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1. r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 21:17:59 EST r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

   Only thing keeping me from hosting all my sites from home is my ISP blocking port 80

   Official explanation: “Because Port 80 is often used by malicious software, including viruses and worms...”

   Nothing says “Net Neutrality” like contrived nonsense to push customers onto fast (more expensive) lanes

   1. hosh (jcn9k@quitter.no)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 04:27:05 EST hosh

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      Is it practical to do port forwarding? https://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-Port-Forwarding-on-a-Router - (I don't know much about this)
   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 04:46:44 EST clacke

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      @cypnk It's pretty common and not unreasonable. Also port 25. What's unreasonable is not opening ports when asked by the customer. Most Swedish ISPs will do this. Fixed IP may cost extra though. Still not unreasonable as it's a limited resource.
   3. BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 (herrabre@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 05:24:50 EST BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

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      @cypnk This has been going on since dial-up, having a public, fixed, reachable IP is considered a thing for "businesses" and is priced accordingly.

      IPv6 won't solve this, because the firewalls and security are now entrenched and considered mandatory. Mostly for good reason.

      Tooting my own horn, this is why I created PageKite. 🙂

      Tor hidden services are also awesome, but only if your users all have the TBB or equivalent and never need to type or remember URLs.

      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 20:24:58 EST clacke

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         @herrabre @cypnk I *love* #PageKite! Not that I've used it or anything, I've been privileged and/or lazy enough not to need it, but I love that it's there and what it's for and I recommend it to people now and again. :-)
         1. hosh (jcn9k@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 04:31:37 EST hosh

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            I just signed up and moved a WP site to nearlyfreespeech. What I can report is that it is indeed a bit time consuming to get everything set up (mainly reading thru FAQs and forums), though not terribly difficult. According to their pricing estimate, my personal "non-production" site should cost $13/yr. A "production" site for an organizational site that I manage would cost about the same as on another hosting company I use (ecohosting.uk) - $50-$60, so I prefered to go with the latter. Note that NFS's prices went up recently.
      2. r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2017 05:29:17 EST r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

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         @HerraBRE Thing is, my IP doesn't change for months anyway and they charge $70 extra for the privilege of having 80/443 unblocked. I've had that package before and the "speed increase" they promised wasn't really there. And it wasn't worth it to me to pay that much when hosting them elsewhere is much cheaper

         This is only an issue in areas where there's no competition. Of course, ISPs have lobbied the government here to make sure they hold a monopoly